Folks, i have just returned from a "Holy Land Tour' to Cairo,Israel and Egypt and on returning was astonished to find that "M.V.Stolt" had totally disappeared from the "INDIAN NEWS RADAR".Ship piracy has existed prior to these two cases and in future more ships could become victims of piracy,but, these two ships were "HIGH PROFILE CASES" involving "PRIME MINISTERIAL LEVEL PROBES AND ASSISTANCE". Even with a "World-wide Reccession and Unemployment", the "Shipping Industry" is still having a deficiency of "SKILLED SHIPBOARD MANPOWER", reasons obvious to the average "HIGH SKILLED INDIAN WAGE-EARNER"."Money" is an important parameter of measuring life's success but definitely not at the cost of severe risks to one's own life or total callousness in times of assistance by the "Marine authorities" or "Government". Agreed, no profession is "Foolproof safe" from personal injury or economic collapse ,but , most "Land Based Industry's" at least have the benifit of being on "terra firma" and not at the mercy of Weather,Wind and piracy.Hope the situation improves, otherwise the shortage of "Skilled Shipboard Manpower" would be a eternal problem even in the World's second largest populated Country.